HEARING AID SPECIALIST
Posted 5 days ago
Job Definition:
Job Description:
- Select and fit hearing aids for customers. Administer and interpret tests of hearing. Assess hearing instrument efficacy. Take ear impressions and prepare, design, and modify ear molds.
Duties and Tasks:
- 1) Select and administer tests to evaluate hearing or related disabilities.
- 2) Administer basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
- 3) Train clients to use hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
- 4) Create or modify impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.
- 5) Maintain or repair hearing aids or other communication devices.
- 6) Demonstrate assistive listening devices (ALDs) to clients.
- 7) Diagnose and treat hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.
- 8) Perform basic screening procedures such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.